The seller, bmullin1403, put this for sale at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night, just after Simmonds scored his hat trick. Here’s the description:

This is an EXCLUSIVE Pre-Sale for these beautiful custom Wayne Simmonds Flyers T-Shirts. Shirt design was created by me through photoshop. Order was just placed for 15 shirts and are guaranteed to be delivered by May 8th. If you purchase before that date please know your item won’t ship until the 8th. If you decide to take your chances and wait, your item will ship within 1 business day. Don’t wait and miss out as there is an extremely limited quantity available!

It wasn’t particularly difficult to find bmullin since the #PickingCornersNotCotton hashtag is populated by exactly… two… two people:

And from there, the irony gets kind of thick, since (@bmullin1403) has sort of a thing on Twitter for defending Simmonds and P.K. Subban against racist comments. So maybe, maybe this was just an extraordinarily misguided effort to defend Simmer against online hate. But, um:

Funny you should mention that. I just saw the director’s cut of the last Soprano’s episode. Turns out those black guys that come into the diner when Tony is eating with his family ended up ordering the chicken and then left without leaving a tip.

Everybody give it a rest, and stop trying to jumpstart additional racist threads. (Lord knows the local athletes will give us enough fodder, without someone having to troll ebay, etc for additional material.)

The next thing you know, “Fran Dunphy” will be back here to lecture everyone.

Yes, this shirt is far more offensive than a t-shirt advocating a bleeding head injury to Sidney Crosby! (that was sarcasm, for you dummies)

Get off your self-righteous, politically-correct high horses, you jackasses. All the incessant whining and faux outrage by the media and commenters brings more attentions to this kind of stuff than the initial object/event (as the case may be).

Kyle, before trying to publicly call out someone, I think it’s necesarry to do your due diligence before posting comments made to make fun of this guy.

Your first insult was that the seller listed the item after Simmonds’ hat trick, which was 4/29. If that’s the case, how is it possibly that by clicking that big “sold” button, you can see an item was sold on 4/27, which means the item was listed at least two days before the hat trick. Good job, Kyle.

Second, the insult for “not shipping until a week after the season is over” since we already covered the listing was posted on or before 4/27, can you honestly say you knew with absolute certainty that we were going to lose this series against the Rangers and thus end our season? No Philadelphia fan would have conceded with still 2-3 games left to play. Again, good reporting here.

Your research should have been more extensive than simply typing the hashtag in twitter.

Lastly, to Kyle and everyone else complaining about this shirt, like the commenter above, how is Kyle selling a shirt depicting Sidney Crosby suffering a head injury which causes him to bleed out any better than a shirt depicting Simmonds with what may be interpreted with a racially insensitive hashtag? Not saying either shirt is right, but people will wear them and people have different views and opinions. There’s no reason to “put this guy on blast” for doing exactly what you’re doing Kyle (making shirts as an attempt to make money).

the difference you fucking idiot is that sydney crosby and his entire race were not persecuted for hundreds of years because of the color of their skin. it’s no big deal when you’re not the one being targeted. get your fucking head out of your ass you idiot.

I SUGGEST EVERYONE SUBMIT SAMPLES, along with WRITINGS (DESCRIPTION) to their local “DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE”. I think this is the BEST WAY TO GET THE ANSWERS AND THE ATTENTION NECESSARY FOR THIS BIZARRE PROBLEM. . . This is what I did May 25th 2012 . . . I hope to have some answers for myself and all of you suffering from this same nightmare! Heads Up!